The National tribune., 1887-05-19
PICKET SHOTS.
From Alert Comrades All Along the
Line.
PERSONAL.

Personal.
Miles W. Buck, Co. X. 50th Pa, says he en-
listed at the age Of II and served year in Co.
| X of that regiment In 1866 he entered the
| Regular Army and served ii years.
| l.. b. Lucas, Butfaioyille, Ind, says he en-
| listed July 5, 1861, in the 25th Ind. four
months before he was Ii years old. He saw
much hard service and was in 10 battles. He
| had smallpox and measles which left him in
| the end badly disabled. He is now nearly
| blind, and has not been able 10 perform a days
labor in eight years. The Government has so
far refused to pension him, and he feels that
insult is added to injury by the utterances Of
such men as Bragg and Warner.
L. V. Jackson, Co. /, l27th H., Sycamore,
| H., says the trouble with Gen. Bragg, of Wis
cOnsin, is that he enlisted on the wrong side.
| He ought to have been with the Johnnies. If
| Gen. Bragg should ride down the line of $780,
| 600 GAR. men to-day, the writer wonders if
| they would cheer him. He thinks there would
| be the lOudest groaning ever heard outside Of
the bottOmless pit.
L. T. Redlon, 18th Me-, Gorbam. Me-. hav-
ing seen mention of several very tall soldiers,
says that comrade named Burbank, Co. b,
10Th Me-, was six feet eight inches high.
Montgomery Miller, I'd n. Y. Art, National
Soldiers Home, Hampton, Va, having seen
newspaper item to the effect that Gen. Bragg,
of Wisconsin, had been stricken with blind
ness, expresses his regrets, and at the same
time hopes that the affection will have as good
an effect upon him a similar visitation of
| Providence did upon Saul of Tarsus.
John Greenbush, Co. ii, oath n. Y, and Co.
| B, 18th " Y. Cav, Freytown, Pa, says he was
one of McDowell's FLOODED soldiers" He
thinks that some Of the boys do more fighting
with pen and ink than they did with musket
and sword.
Philip Faust, Ophir, Utah, thinks the Next
can Pension bill, recently passed, is a very
! unjust measure, as il does not treat with equal
fairness the survivors Of that war. He thinks
| he is the only member of his company in the
| Mexican war who served in the Union Army
| during the war of the rebellion. Nearly all
| his comrades entered the Confederate army
| He says he received two wounds in the late
war, and still carries a bullet in his body.
T. L. Brooks, Co. l., Sth Ohio Cav, Minerva,
| Iowa, wishes some comrade would write for
| THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE a sketch of the
services of his regiment. He would like TO
| hear from any of his old comrades.
Edward o. Welch, First Sergeant, Co. F, 11Sth
y. Y, Lacon, ILL.,, was a member of the Second
| Brigade, First Division, Eighteenth Corps, COM
posed of the Sth Conn, 10th n. H., Goth and
| llSth n. \. 1t was commanded by Gen.
Burnham, who was MORALLY wounded at Fort
Harrison and died within the works. lie
says the Sth Conn. and 96th n. Y formed the
storming column, supported by the First and
| Third BTigades of the Division. The llSth
N Y and 10th ". H., armed with Spencer
repeating rifles, were on the skirmish-line.
| Serg't Lester Archer, 95th n. Y, was the first
| TO mount the works with the Union colors in
| his hand, for which he was awarded medal of
honor by the Secretary Of War. The writer
says that if r d. Lemley, Co. X, Cd Ohio Cav,
will send his address he will reply, as he 1.-THE
writer was one of those paroled from Sails
bury, n. C., in 1866.
Angelina Elkins, Anna. H., would like TO
correspond with any soldier who knew her son,
James q. Elkins, Co. II. 3lst III. The last she
ever heard OF him he was serving as nurse on
a hospital boat near the mouth of the Yazoo
River in June, 1868.
Maj. +. K. Poole Cd NJ s. NJ. Cav, Larned,
Kan. says he does not think he deserves the
very kind words spoken Of him by Lieut.. A.
Miller, McCune, Kan, as he says he was not
any Drawer than the rest of the regiment. He
speaks in high praise of Lieut.. Miller's gall
lantTy, and cites case in which the guard of
a supply train was nearly all massacred by
guerrillas near Whitewater River. Lieut.. Mil
Ter, with % men, retOOk the train and utterly
routed the blshwhackers.
q. w. Martin, Brueeyille. Ind, says that Col.
George Z. Buell., of the 35th Ind. had com
mand OF Gen. Sherman's pOntoon train during
the Atlanta campaign and on the march to the
sea.
J. w. Ingram, Co. A, 4th Ky, Hedges, Ky,
says good word for Hon. w. z. Taulbee, NJ. C.
from his District, for his efforts in behalf of
the soldiers. The writer served three years in
the war, and had his full share of tribulation.
| J. j. Waip, Co. G.. lllth Pa, Eskridge, Kan,
says he is greatly interested in reading THE
| NATIONAL TRIBUNE. He was in the fight of
| Oct. %, 1863, at Wauhatchie, near the foot of
Lookout Mountain. He would be very glad to
see all the disabled soldiers receive pensions
Charles Waterhouse, Co. X, Goth Me-, Clear
| Lake, Wis, says he did not enlist until the
| Fall OF 1864, so he supposes he must be a pau
pei" or bounty jumper" according to Gen.
| Bragg. He says he was only kid" aud
went as soon as the mastering officer would
take him, and he believes he did as well in his
place as Gen. Bragg did in his. Gen. Bragg
may be better educated and a smarter lawyer,
but the writer does not think he is any more
honest and patriotic or any less a bummer"
| than himself
James ID. Paulding. Co. F, 18th Ohio, address
not given, says that the story told by COmrade
| Stone, 18th Ohio Cav, about the soldier at
Camp Chase who ate glass is true, as hundreds
know. He says the glass-eater's name is John
| White, and no now lives in Warren County, o.
| He belonged to Co. +, 10Th Ohio. peculiar
feature of this man was the fact that he had
complete set OF molars or double teeth, all
around. above and below. White was an old
| Mexican war soldier.
Jacob Andrist, Co. /, l7sth Ohio, Ada, Mimi,
writes of skirmish at Kingston, n. c., in
| which he received wound in the right arm.
de would like TO hear from any Of his old COM
rades.
John d. Smith, 10th Pa. and u g. Signal
Corps, Strattonville, Pa, says he was at tine
front for three years, and then in the Signal
| Corps under Hancock. lie knows something
OF the hardships and sufferings of the soldiers,
and how well they deserve the utmost con-
sideratiOn from tho Government.
Albert Jones, 9TH Wis, StoughtOn, Wis, says
he served in the Iron Brigade. and mentions
the visit 70 their camp of L. w. Locke. recently
mentioned by several comrades, who was well
known in tho army as writer and singer of
| war songs. He would DO glad 10 have the
| words of the one entitled "On to Richmond"
the chorus of which began Ulysses leads the
van"
Franklin ii. Kershmer, Tamaqua, Pa, greatly
regrets the defeat of the Dependent Pension
| Bill, as he would have been one of its benef-
Charles. He says he is badly disabled as the
| result OF his army service, but his application
| has been rejected for lack of a hospital record
lie says his wife had four brothers in the army,
all of whom are now dead. One was killed in
the Peninsular campaign, one was 81 months in
| rebel prisons, and one was wounded at Cherry
Ridge, Va
F.W Livingston, Co, A, 14th III. Cav Aledo,
Ill., is glad TO learn that history of his regi-
ment has been prepared, and hopes it will soon
be published. He had some material for such
history, but lost it before the war closed.
From the pursuit of John Morgan's raiders